Bugs relating to the Debian Eee PC project

Please do not use this page to track bugs. This is what the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS) is for. However, we have provided a few summaries where workarounds are known and are difficult to dig out of the bug reports, each cross-referenced to the Debian bug numbers.

FixMe: Migrate the following bugs from old HowTo/Troubleshooting

real bugs (must have debian bug# against the appropriate package(s) and usertag them)

Shutting down fails

There is an issue surrounding shutting down (confirmed even in 2.6.25). The system appears to halt, but the fan continues to run (sometimes also the wi-fi light stays on) and your SSD drive may not be cleanly unmounted. The reason is the sound module doesn't close correctly, but there is a fix! Edit /etc/default/halt as root with your favourite text editor and add the line

rmmod snd_hda_intel

at the end. Then it will power off correctly!

900A: This bug does not seem to exist when running Lenny (linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.6.26-8 on 2008-10-31).

900: Can't reproduce this bug with Lenny (linux-image-2.6.26-1-openvz-686 version 2.6.26-17lenny1).

dieselnutjob: Just installed Lenny onto a 701. The bug is there. Kernel version 2.6.26-21lenny4 on 2010-03-12.

System freezes displaying 'Setting the system clock'

Try the following and please do give us feedback if it does not work for you.

Become root and say:

echo "HWCLOCKPARS=--directisa" >> /etc/default/rcS

900A: This workaround is still necessary when running Lenny (linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.6.26-8 on 2008-10-31).

900: Can't reproduce this bug with Lenny (linux-image-2.6.26-1-openvz-686 version 2.6.26-17lenny1).

Wireless not working (using wpa_supplicant)

If you get strange errors (for me: WPA not working at all, WEP only working for 8 seconds followed by 30 seconds of "network unreachable" and no key shown in iwconfig ath0) you can try the following workaround:

Keyboard on 901

Win key doesn't work: Does any one have a solution? ( I refer the key between Fn and right Alt, but the key between ?AltGr and left Control doesn't work also) Ctrl + Alt + Arrows doesn't seem to respond under any window manager I tested (gnome, fluxbox and twm). Any advice? Ctrl + Alt + F1-F9: Doesn't do nothing ...